Garmin Colorado featured with Sarantel GeoHelix GPS Antennas
Garmin has chosen Sarantel’s award-winning GeoHelix GPS Antennas for its recently launched Garmin Colorado range of handheld GPS receivers. Sarantel develops and manufactures the world’s most advanced miniature filtering antennas for mobile, wireless and handheld devices. The technology is one of the most compact and yet accurate positioning antennas on the market today; designed with the varied and increasing demand for GPS technology in mind.
Garmin is a pioneer and the worldwide leader in handheld GPS products and the Colorado series represents a dramatic step forward in innovation and usability in the outdoor GPS market segment. Users will benefit from a host of innovative features, such as world class positional accuracy, and will find its small size easier to use and more practical.
Visit the Grand Canyon with a hand-held Gps device
Visitors to the Grand Canyon can now rent a hand-held GPS device to help them find their way around the South Rim of the park.
They are scheduled to be available by July under an agreement between the Grand Canyon Association, a nonprofit association that supports visitor services at the park, and FUNfinder Inc., a Phoenix technology company.
The devices are designed to provide an easy way to navigate the Grand Canyon’s trails and roads, and they also offer information about lodges and educational amenities in the park.
Garmin Rino 520HCx and Rino 530HCx with high sensitive Gps receiver
Garmin today introduced the Rino 520HCx and Rino 530HCx, the latest in Garmin’s groundbreaking and award-winning line of two-way radios integrated with GPS technology. The new units feature a high- sensitivity GPS receiver for faster acquisition, improved accuracy in challenging outdoor environments, and the addition of a microSD card slot for detailed mapping data.
“Since its inception, the Rino line has staked claim as the only integrated device that not only lets users communicate by voice, but also send and receive their exact locations,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin’s vice president of worldwide sales. “With the Rino 520HCx and 530HCx, we’ve upped the ante with a high-sensitivity GPS receiver that rapidly acquires and maintains a lock in heavy tree cover or deep canyons. The microSD memory card slot also lets users load their device with highly-detailed topo maps, road maps, or lake maps.”
Ricoh Caplio 500SE first Gps equipped digital camera
Ricoh released the first GPS-ready digital camera the Ricoh 500SE. The device, featured with an high- resolution 8MP sensor, is very solid and it was developed for outdoor photography.
The camera’s integrated precision GPS module provides for an all-in-one, easy- to-use device for geo-coding images and video at the time of capture. Also the camera is capable of receiving NMEA data streams from external GPS devices via its on-board Bluetooth radio.
Once the captured "geo-images" and "geo-video" files are transferred to a PC, they are automatically converted to shape files or merged into geo-databases for instant integration into Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
In addition to storing GPS data in the image and video files, Ricoh 500SE also utilizes a user-configurable "data dictionary" to tag fileswith workflow-related information. These attributes become part of the GIS layer table for automated database integration.
Also, a great feature is the ability to send images wirelessly to handheld devices via Bluetooth or WiFi.
For more information http://www.ricohsolutions.com/geo/
Trimble GuideWorx GPS outdoor navigation solution for GPS-enabled mobile phones
At CES 2007, Trimble has announced GuideWorx GPS an application that transforms a mobile phone into a powerful handheld GPS device specifically designed for both on- and off-road navigation.
The turn-by-turn on-road navigation system for GuideWorx GPS, developed with Networks In Motion’s NAVBuilder Developer Platform, allows users to retrieve maps and other useful travel data in real-time. To plan their off-road recreation, users can access a national database of points of interests while on-the go, and the free PC mapping software offers consumers the option to pre-plan trips that can be sent wirelessly to their GPS-enabled phone.
Geocaching video to discover this great tech-naturalistic game
Today, I post you a great video to explore this new great game named "Geocaching".
Made by Josh Leo this video explain what a Geocaching is: an entertaining adventure game for gps users.
"Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache." (from www.geocaching.com)
